"In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write."

-- Kami Garcia

#Writing Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Paper Quotes

“That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going . . . yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we believe He leads us in a certain direction . . . or in pursuit of a precise goal.”
“Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.”
“Ginger Rogers was one of the worst, red-baiting, terrifying reactionaries in Hollywood.”

Source : Joseph Losey, Michel Ciment (1985). “Conversations with Losey”, Methuen Publishing
“No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful”
“Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.”
“I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.”
“I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.”
“How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?”

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